cohost public anniversary festivities: site randomly white screen of deaths itself all day long. happy eggbug day everybody

if you read my header image, i'm sorry
cohost public anniversary festivities: site randomly white screen of deaths itself all day long. happy eggbug day everybody
my terrible knife robot kept die cutting when i asked it to kiss cut and turning my sticker sheets into bagged sticker sets. so i just never had them in stock. so finally i was like... well... i could put them in a bag. anyway, you can buy these here!
There is a little ritual that happens on all social websites. Someone will notice the IP licensing language in the ToS, and freak outยน. Then the entire site will freak out. Then after a day or so someone familiar with website operation will exhaustedly write a response post, explaining that IP licensing is necessary and that all UGC websites have similar language. Then the entire site will calm down. The interesting thing about this ritual is that the first part, the freaking out, happens regardless of whether the IP provisions are actually onerous/dangerous; and the second part, the calming down, also happens regardless of what the IP provisions actually say.
I am not a lawyer. However I believe I know enough to parse a TOS, and I believe not all IP provisions are equal. I think some are reasonable and some are not.
And unfortunately, I specifically believe Cohost's IP provisions are problematic or even dangerous. I don't believe these terms were chosen maliciously, but I believe they should be changed.
The relevant provisions are in the Cohost terms of use. As of 2023-Jun-27 they read:
ASSC requires licenses from you for that User Content to operate the Services. By posting User Content on the Services, you grant ASSC a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, reproduce, distribute, perform, publicly display or prepare derivative works of your User Content.
In this post, I will overview the comparable TOS provisions for other Cohost-like social sites. What I will argue is all comparable social IP terms either are much more limited in scope than Cohost's, or are expansive in the same way as Cohost's but contain a termination provision where a user can choose to discontinue the IP license in extreme circumstances. (There is one exceptionโ Twitterโ and I will argue that the Twitter IP provisions are also a serious problem.) I will also briefly cover Cohost's responses so far when I have contacted them about this.
I do not think there is anything you need to be worried about right now. I view this as a long-term problem.